Seminar location:
Corudra 100, Stanford University

Seminar time:
3:00pm-4:30 pm

Speaker bio:
John Wilbanks is the Executive Director of Science Commons at Creatie Commons. He comes to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical discovery. Before founding Incellico, John was the first Assistant Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and also spent time in Washington, DC, USA as a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Fortney (”Pete”) Stark. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University.

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